re: #21 HappyWarrior

What the hell do they expect her to do? If I got shot by a deranged gunman who was able to possess a deadly weapon, I’d fight tooth and nail to prevent the easy access of guns too. It’s not about politicizing her tragedy assholes, it’s about preventing future tragedies. But please do tell us how “ping pongs” and credit cards are more or as dangerous as guns. A gun has only one purpose- to maim and kill. So you can take that comparison of guns to vehicles and shut up.

Well, there are several legitimate uses of guns.

(1) To threaten maiming or killing, or exhibit the capacity to do so, thus quelling violent impulses: cops carry guns mostly for that purpose.

(2) To outright maim or kill those who cannot be stopped from arson, murder, etc. any other way.

(3) To kill game animals for meat.

(4) To kill pest animals because they’re pests.

(5) To kill trophy animals for sport. (The moral legitimacy of this is arguable, but it’s fully legal and some very successful conservation efforts are built around hunting and the revenue from hunting.)

(6) Maybe I missed some.

But the point is, Giffords and Kelly aren’t trying to shut down gun ownership. Nothing they propose would mess up any of the above.

It’s disheartening the kinds of things so many (a majority) of the weasels are posting as comments. It takes a real sicko to write that stuff.